Paths of Change

People have always been good at imagining the end of the world, which is much easier to picture than the strange sidelong paths of change in a world without end.
--Rebecca Solnit

All Your Might

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might, for in the realm of the dead, where you are going, there is neither working nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom.
--Ecclesiastes 9:10

The Deal

Before you sell a deal you have to live the deal. You have to believe in it, because, if you don't believe in it, you can't sell it.
--Mel Weinberg

Story

Stories are compasses and architecture, we navigate by them, we build our sanctuaries and our prisons out of them, and to be without a story is to be lost in the vastness of a world that spreads in all directions like arctic tundra or sea ice.
--Rebecca Solnit

Fundamentalist

A fundamentalist group, although it may not kill anyone, although it may not strike anyone, is violent. The mental structure of fundamentalists is violence in the name of God.
--Pope Francis

Take Care

In the end, if you take care,
You can be happy or unhappy anywhere.
--Tracey Thorn

Free

When I call myself a male feminist, I'm not doing it because I think I'm going to save women. I'm doing it because I think it's important for men to acknowledge that as long as women aren't free, men won't be either.
--Noah Berlatsky

The Needs

The needs of a human being are sacred. Their satisfaction cannot be subordinated either to reasons of state, or to any consideration of money, nationality, race, or color, or to the moral or other value attributed to the human being in question, or to any consideration whatsoever.
--Simone Weil

Poetry

All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.
--G.K. Chesterton

Furious

To be furious
Is to be frighted out of fear, and in that mood
The dove will peck the estridge.
--William Shakespeare

Cynical

I think that if a person doesn't feel cynical then they're out of phase with the 20th century. Being cynical is the only way to deal with modern civilization, you can't just swallow it whole.
--Frank Zappa

Perverse

It seems especially perverse that people purporting to be Christian, a religion that vows to help the poor and heal the sick, should be so violently against helping the poor and healing the sick.
--Eric Idle

Despair

Despair is also a form of dismissiveness, a way of saying that you already know what will happen and nothing can be done, or that the differences don't matter, or that nothing but the impossibly perfect is acceptable.
--Rebecca Solnit

Light

Love is not consolation, it is light.
--Simone Weil

Boredom

Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.
--Wendell Phillips

Sin

In the Bible, the words "sin" and "iniquity," from which the modern word "inequity" arises, are used almost interchangably. There is a good reason for this.
--Sam Simple

Future

The future is dark, which is the best thing the future can be, I think.
--Virginia Woolf

Values

The idea that the private sector, the free market, on its own has all the solutions is just a myth. When it's just about money, there are no values.
--Tim Wu